Posts by Tony Greenstein

Solitary Confinement, Electric Shocks, Shackles and Handcuffs – How Israel Treats the Children of its Untermenschen There was a time when Israel’s founders spoke of Israel as a ‘Light Unto the Nations’ a phrase that occurs more than once in the Book of Isaiah. Israel was held up as a moral example to the world.…

The report on the settler news site, Arutz Sheva said it all. Describing Sudanese refugees as ‘infiltrators’ we are told that ‘Many of them end up residing in the central bus station in Tel Aviv. The area looks surrealistically like an African country, in terms of population, stores and atmosphere.’ Now where have we heard…

Mary Rizzo on Gilad Atzmon There has been much speculation as to why the alliance between Gilad Atzmon and Mary Rizzo broke up. The truth appears to now be out, it was entirely person! Well they say the political is personal but I’ve yet to see any major political differences emerge although clearly there is…

Gideon Spiro’s Red Rag weekly column By: Gideon Spiro29 November 2011 (English translation 12 December 2011) Gideon Spiro’s Red Rag column on the Occupation Website is worth reading for its take on robbery by Israeli tycoons, the complicity of Israeli doctors in the torture of prisoners, the transformation of Israel into a Ghetto State and…

The BBC Reports Israel’s Killing of 3 Palestinians in Gaza Bomb Attack – on the World Service! The BBC has managed to report the latest unprovoked bomb attack by Israel, which will no doubt complain if Palestinians retaliate. Of course it has only published the news on the BBC World Service and as part of…

There is a certain sense of irony in a LabourStart conference supporting BDS and a boycott of Histadrut. LabourStart was co-founded by ex-colonel Eric Lee of the Israeli Occupation Forces. Lee it was who was an unsuccessful Zionist candidate for Amnesty International’s Executive. When the Association of University Teachers (now UCU) first passed policy supporting…

Up to 600,000 Israeli Jews are living in North America. It is estimated that 1 million, nearly 20% of Israel’s current Jewish population is living in ‘exile’. Hence a group of adverts telling Israelis in the USA that if they want to remain Jewish and Israeli they must ‘return’ to Israel. It is one of…

A Worthless Book – Devoid of All Originality [this Review has been posted to Amazon[ IntroductionIn the blurb for Atzmon’s The Wandering Who? are listed five professors: William Cook, James Petras and Samir Abed-Rabbo, as well as John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at Chicago University and Richard Falk, Professor of International Law at Princeton.…

Atzmon On The Ropes As Criticism Take Its Toll The praise that Atzmon regularly receives from neo-Nazis and far-Right sites has always made me suspect that he maintains regular contracts with white supremacists such as David Duke. However, despite being seen in the company of Michelle Renouf, a well known holocaust denier and friend of…

Is this the largest Brighton Trade Union Demonstration Ever? Unsurprisingly the strike that Cameron did his best to avoid was remarkably successful. I can’t remember a time when The Level in Brighton, traditional meeting point for the Labour movement was so packed. I went first to the PCS demonstration outside the Job Centre. Even though…